The towering custodian received a combined total of 52.5 per cent of the votes on both the @Bundesliga_EN and @bundesliga_de Twitter channels, putting him some way ahead of his closest challenger, Bayer 04 Leverkusen stopper Bernd Leno, on 25.5 per cent. There was a tie for third place, with 1. FSV Mainz 05's Loris Karius and 1. FC Köln's Timo Horn each registering 11 per cent in the polls.